Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Partner

Rakesh Kumar has a specialization in corporate (re)structuring, capital markets and securities, cross-border transactions, corporate litigation and arbitration. Rakesh has over a decade experience in the field of corporate restructuring strategies, corporate and commercial conveyancing, corporate dispute resolutions, including national/international commercial arbitration/negotiation practices, liquidation proceedings, M&A, company law board-related litigation. He is an independent counsel/pleader for various high stake litigation before the Supreme Court of India, High Court(s), Company Courts, Company Law Board, BIFR, AAIFR, DRT, DRAT, TDSAT and State Consumer Commission(s) and National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission. Rakesh has handled high-stakes corporate clients of national and international repute. During his professional carrier, he has represented several professional bodies, as well as corporate clients in various judicial forums and has been instrumental in bringing restructuring of many corporate houses amicably. He has handled various premier assignments of inbound and outbound investments from India.
 

Professional Memberships and Affiliations

• Bar Council of Delhi

• Supreme Court Bar Association

• Delhi High Court Bar Association

• The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI)

• Former Chairman, Faridabad Chapter of ICSI

• Dist. Cricket Association, Faridabad
   

Dr. Javed Hasan, Partner

Dr. Javed Hasan is a qualified Indian patent and trade mark attorney with doctorate degree in science, master degree in business & bachelor degree in law. Dr. Hasan has served many domestic and overseas clients and he has done thousands of following Patent related work:

• Prior Art Search,
• Patent specification drafting,
• Registration of Patents of National Phase Application and Convention Application.
• Analysis of infringement of registered Patents and procuring legal protection thereto.
• Patent commercialization.
• Advisory work on management and protection of registered Patents.

Dr. Hasan has been extensively representing many MNCs in their Trademarks / Service Marks, Copyright and Design assignments as under:

• Regular watch of registered mark, & design on behalf of clients to ensure that no similar mark should enter the market.
• Registration of Ordinary, Collective & Certification Trademarks / Service Mark, Copyrights & Design.
• Analysis of infringement of registered Trademarks, Service Mark, Copyright and Design and procuring legal protection thereto.
• Assignment and licensing of Trademark, copyright & design.
• Advisory work on management and protection of registered mark, copyright & design.

Professional Memberships and Affiliations

• International Trademark Association (INTA)
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
• Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA)
• Bar Council of Delhi (BCI)
• Delhi High Court Bar association (DHCBA)

Mr. Rajiv Sharma, Partner

Rajiv enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi in the year 1995. He has worked extensively on corporate and commercial transactions, foreign collaborations, joint ventures, M&A, corporate restructuring, entry strategy and establishment of business presence of foreign corporations in India as Wholly Owned Subsidiaries (WOS), Joint Venture Companies, Non- Banking Financial Corporation (NBFC). He has acquired for many MNCs Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approvals and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approvals for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in regulated sectors. He has helped MNCs to acquire stake in Indian companies by way of financial investment, technology collaboration, against royalty for supplying technical know-how & use of trademarks and against External Commercial Borrowings. Amongst others, he has also advised a number of foreign religious and charitable entities particularly on their entry strategy into India and has assisted them in getting tax exemptions as well as mandatory approvals of FCRA from the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Professional Memberships and Affiliations

• Bar Council of Delhi
• American Bar Association
• Delhi High Court Bar Association
• Tis Hazari Courts Bar Association

Mr. Vinay Kumar Gupta, Partner

Vinay has over 18 years of experience in advising clients on national and international taxation matters, structuring of tax efficient models, double taxation avoidance agreements (DTAA), transfer pricing issues, technical accounting, treasury operations, etc.

He has been extensively dealing with Direct Tax, Corporate Taxation, Withholding Tax and Indirect Tax Compliances including Service Tax, Sale Tax and Excise matters.
 

Mr. Ajay Jasra, Partner

Ajay Jasra is a Partner (Real Estate) and has over 16 years of experience in real estate laws and expertise in Title investigation reports, due diligence ( on behalf of intending purchaser of immovable property), projects approvals for financial institutions, to ascertain encumbrances over the property, drafting of instruments for affecting transfer of property , disputes related to immovable property. Mr. Jasra has carried out over 2000 real estate due diligence assignments for different clients.
He has successfully carrier detailed due diligence including investigation of title and permissions / approvals / licenses from competent authorities for a number of reputed township / housing projects carried out on behalf of bank approving the financing of the projects

Professional Memberships and Affiliations

• Bar Council of Delhi
• Panel Advocate for State Bank of Patiala
• Panel Advocate for State Bank of Hyderabad
• Panel Advocate for State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur

Ms Preeti Kashyap, Partner

Preeti Kashyap is Partner in charge of the Compliance Desk of the firm. She has over eight years of experience in undertaking various statutory compliance assignments for companies from different sectors of the industry. Her experience also encompasses developing a comprehensive compliance mechanism to ensure director's liabilities in a company are duly complied with to ensure that directors do not suffer on account of fault / ignorance by other officers in a company. The compliance desk of the firm interalia undertakes and ensures compliances of following statutes:

• The Companies Act, 1956
• The Industrial (Development & Regulation) Act, 1951
• The Competition Act, 2002
• The Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999
• The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010
• The Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985
• The Consumer Protection Act, 1986
• The Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008
• NBFC Norms
• The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act,
• The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
• The Payment of Wages Act, 1936 & Amendment Act of 2005
• The Minimum Wages Act, 1948. The Payment of Bonus Act, 1956
• The Factories Act, 1948. The Shop and Establishment Act, 1948
• The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961. The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976
• The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 & Amendment Act of 2000
• The Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948
• The Employees' Provident Fund & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 & Amendment Act of 1996
• The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972. The Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991
• The Personal Injuries (Emergency) Provisions Act, 1962
• The Personal Injuries (Compensation Insurance) Act, 1963

Professional Memberships and Affiliations

• Bar Council of Delhi